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	<title>Comments on: Iraqi Police Ill-Equipped to Prevent Civil War</title>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;******Donâ€™t you just love sweeping generalizations????? 
Comment by mighty Hypocrite&quot;

Ironic coming from you - the QUEEN of sleeping generalization and BORING Zzzzz republican talking points.  Aren&#039;t you don&#039;t ranting today?  Don&#039;t you have a prisoner to torture, or a baby to starve?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;******Donâ€™t you just love sweeping generalizations?????<br />
Comment by mighty Hypocrite&#8221;</p>
<p>Ironic coming from you &#8211; the QUEEN of sleeping generalization and BORING Zzzzz republican talking points.  Aren&#8217;t you don&#8217;t ranting today?  Don&#8217;t you have a prisoner to torture, or a baby to starve?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471955', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: FuzzFlash</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-471656</link>
		<dc:creator>FuzzFlash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I geddit Donnie, it&#039;s a &quot;known known&quot; that this is the civil war you get when you&#039;re not actually having a civil war. Meanwhile,Praise the Spigot and pass the ammunition to the Iraqis, for only thus can god&#039;s gift of democracy be bestowed upon this nation of ingrates.

 How can the world ever thank you enough Secretary Rumsfeld? And can you please splatter us up a fresh mess of &quot;collateral damage&quot; in Iran. One hundred thousand dead and maimed innocent civilians in Iraq can have been nowhere near enough meat grindin&#039; to slate Neoconservative bloodlust and keep Halliburton profits at record highs. Please make us proud, Mr. Secretary,as you prepare to slaughter untold more human beings in America&#039;s name. Wounded Knee,Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai, Fallujah; clearly death needs time for what it kills to grow in and mean folk are beginnin&#039; to call you names like &quot;Pentagon Pops&quot;. C&#039;mon, big guy, one final orgy of napalm in the morning before you mosey on down retirement&#039;s happy trail. Besides, Karl,the GOP, and the dodgies at Diebold  need all the distraction help they can get come the mid term elections.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I geddit Donnie, it&#8217;s a &#8220;known known&#8221; that this is the civil war you get when you&#8217;re not actually having a civil war. Meanwhile,Praise the Spigot and pass the ammunition to the Iraqis, for only thus can god&#8217;s gift of democracy be bestowed upon this nation of ingrates.</p>
<p> How can the world ever thank you enough Secretary Rumsfeld? And can you please splatter us up a fresh mess of &#8220;collateral damage&#8221; in Iran. One hundred thousand dead and maimed innocent civilians in Iraq can have been nowhere near enough meat grindin&#8217; to slate Neoconservative bloodlust and keep Halliburton profits at record highs. Please make us proud, Mr. Secretary,as you prepare to slaughter untold more human beings in America&#8217;s name. Wounded Knee,Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai, Fallujah; clearly death needs time for what it kills to grow in and mean folk are beginnin&#8217; to call you names like &#8220;Pentagon Pops&#8221;. C&#8217;mon, big guy, one final orgy of napalm in the morning before you mosey on down retirement&#8217;s happy trail. Besides, Karl,the GOP, and the dodgies at Diebold  need all the distraction help they can get come the mid term elections.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471656', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-471552</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A question for Progs:  Do you think your local police force would be equipped to handle a Civil War???

&quot;Rumsfeld ignores the fact that sectarian, rights-abusing Iraqi security forces are also part of the problem,...&quot;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A question for Progs:  Do you think your local police force would be equipped to handle a Civil War???</p>
<p>&#8220;Rumsfeld ignores the fact that sectarian, rights-abusing Iraqi security forces are also part of the problem,&#8230;&#8221;<br />
 &#8211; text by Payson &#8211;<br />
******Don&#8217;t  you just love sweeping generalizations?????<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471552', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: progressive and proud</title>
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		<dc:creator>progressive and proud</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#8 You just sound stupid, plain and simple.  You should do as the other trolls when they are exposed as hateful idiots and change your post name.  Really, aren&#039;t you embarrassed?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#8 You just sound stupid, plain and simple.  You should do as the other trolls when they are exposed as hateful idiots and change your post name.  Really, aren&#8217;t you embarrassed?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471274', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bs</title>
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		<dc:creator>bs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i was an 18 yr. old off the streets and in 6weeks battle ready?  what seems to be the problem?  i&#039;ll tell ya, they don&#039;t want the iraqs to be trained. then that means our soldiers come home and that means the oil we will leave.  200,0000+ to our 130,000 on the ground. come on folks, this is not calculus.  my 9 yr old understands this.  like they said we will be there for another 5-10 yrs. and maybe never coming back, just post up and call it ours. i hope our americans are ready for civil service this spring and summer to clean up any distasters coming our way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i was an 18 yr. old off the streets and in 6weeks battle ready?  what seems to be the problem?  i&#8217;ll tell ya, they don&#8217;t want the iraqs to be trained. then that means our soldiers come home and that means the oil we will leave.  200,0000+ to our 130,000 on the ground. come on folks, this is not calculus.  my 9 yr old understands this.  like they said we will be there for another 5-10 yrs. and maybe never coming back, just post up and call it ours. i hope our americans are ready for civil service this spring and summer to clean up any distasters coming our way.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471205', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Smedley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Smedley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Republicans would certainly be foolish to climb on to what is left of Bush&#039;s foreign policy. Nearly all its premises are crumbling before our eyes. The theory of a democratic peace is a chimera; give Muslims the vote and they vote for militants. Regime change in Iraq has not enhanced American security; its principal beneficiary has been Iran. As for the unipolar world, the reality is that the occupation of Iraq and its ramifications in the Greater Middle East now so dominate this administration&#039;s agenda that the truly world-shaking event of our times has all but vanished from view. The administration is in at least two minds about the resurgence of China, and the result is a dangerous diplomatic schizophrenia, with half the signals indicating a new Cold War strategy of &quot;containment&quot; (why else help the Indians with their nukes?), and the other half continuing the older policy of conciliation.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BE540G2S1KQSBQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/03/05/do0502.xml&amp;sSheet=/portal/2006/03/05/ixportal.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LINK&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republicans would certainly be foolish to climb on to what is left of Bush&#8217;s foreign policy. Nearly all its premises are crumbling before our eyes. The theory of a democratic peace is a chimera; give Muslims the vote and they vote for militants. Regime change in Iraq has not enhanced American security; its principal beneficiary has been Iran. As for the unipolar world, the reality is that the occupation of Iraq and its ramifications in the Greater Middle East now so dominate this administration&#8217;s agenda that the truly world-shaking event of our times has all but vanished from view. The administration is in at least two minds about the resurgence of China, and the result is a dangerous diplomatic schizophrenia, with half the signals indicating a new Cold War strategy of &#8220;containment&#8221; (why else help the Indians with their nukes?), and the other half continuing the older policy of conciliation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BE540G2S1KQSBQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/03/05/do0502.xml&amp;sSheet=/portal/2006/03/05/ixportal.html" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471114', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Smedley</title>
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		<dc:creator>Smedley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>40# if i remember rightly when America fought the british your small groups called militia - were actually classified as terrorists - and even more so was the first case of terrorism ever .watch the mel gibson film -PATRIOT

and just to add insult to injury , we should have never let you win , we should have rounded you up and put you in prisons and tortured you , started a civil war so you could have killed each other , stolen all your mineral resources and finaly, then finaly did what you did to the Indians and wiped you out all together....Just joking</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>40# if i remember rightly when America fought the british your small groups called militia &#8211; were actually classified as terrorists &#8211; and even more so was the first case of terrorism ever .watch the mel gibson film -PATRIOT</p>
<p>and just to add insult to injury , we should have never let you win , we should have rounded you up and put you in prisons and tortured you , started a civil war so you could have killed each other , stolen all your mineral resources and finaly, then finaly did what you did to the Indians and wiped you out all together&#8230;.Just joking<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471095', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush uses the fear of the US citizen and is still using that fear to manipulate our country. We did not have UN backing to enter Iraq. We did not find the so called weapons of mass destruction. Oh! I forget it was humanitarian aid that Iraq asked for. Oh! Iâ€™m wrong again Democracy that what Iraq are asking for. civil war whatâ€™s new, Oh! invade Iran.

I remember reading some where in American history about the British occupation of what is now the USA. How men opposed to this occupation â€œour founding fathersâ€ fought in small groups called militia. Today we call them insurgents. We are forcing a government system on people that do not understand it. Did they want it in they first place?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush uses the fear of the US citizen and is still using that fear to manipulate our country. We did not have UN backing to enter Iraq. We did not find the so called weapons of mass destruction. Oh! I forget it was humanitarian aid that Iraq asked for. Oh! Iâ€™m wrong again Democracy that what Iraq are asking for. civil war whatâ€™s new, Oh! invade Iran.</p>
<p>I remember reading some where in American history about the British occupation of what is now the USA. How men opposed to this occupation â€œour founding fathersâ€ fought in small groups called militia. Today we call them insurgents. We are forcing a government system on people that do not understand it. Did they want it in they first place?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471061', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, all the batalions of Iraqi &quot;ready to fight&quot; only have wooden rifles, the same ones with they were trained shouting &quot;bang, you&#039;re dead&quot; to fellow trainees all these 3 years from the total occupation of Iraq?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, all the batalions of Iraqi &#8220;ready to fight&#8221; only have wooden rifles, the same ones with they were trained shouting &#8220;bang, you&#8217;re dead&#8221; to fellow trainees all these 3 years from the total occupation of Iraq?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471045', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jay Randal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jay Randal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes the Iraqis are ill equiped, but Rumsfeld could care less since our own troops do NOT even have reliable body armour! Withen a couple of years probably half the population of Iraq will either have been killed by violence, or starved to death, so thanks to Bush ass!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes the Iraqis are ill equiped, but Rumsfeld could care less since our own troops do NOT even have reliable body armour! Withen a couple of years probably half the population of Iraq will either have been killed by violence, or starved to death, so thanks to Bush ass!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=471008', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Please tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible - preferably 90% so we donâ€™t have to think about anything important. (We can all be equally miserable together!!) Life on the DemDole can be soâ€¦.blissfully ignorant. WOW!! Comment by MightyHermaphrodite&quot;

How about we just shift the tax burden back to corporations say to 1950s levels?  That would work for most americans, and it would do wonders for the economy.

But I&#039;m sure you prefer to demonize taxes, while benefiting from them.

Besides, Corporations are much bigger recipients of the &#039;dole&#039; than any americans are.  Halliburton proves that daily.  But keep dreaming the dream - moron.  Do it long enough, and you can die as ignorantly as you&#039;ve lived.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Please tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible &#8211; preferably 90% so we donâ€™t have to think about anything important. (We can all be equally miserable together!!) Life on the DemDole can be soâ€¦.blissfully ignorant. WOW!! Comment by MightyHermaphrodite&#8221;</p>
<p>How about we just shift the tax burden back to corporations say to 1950s levels?  That would work for most americans, and it would do wonders for the economy.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m sure you prefer to demonize taxes, while benefiting from them.</p>
<p>Besides, Corporations are much bigger recipients of the &#8216;dole&#8217; than any americans are.  Halliburton proves that daily.  But keep dreaming the dream &#8211; moron.  Do it long enough, and you can die as ignorantly as you&#8217;ve lived.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470734', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;You mean the weapons we sold to help Iraq battle Iran?? The country holding 52 hostages?? For 444 days?? Those weapons???? The US that I hate??? Put your crack pipe down and analyze yourself ad nauseum - â€œYOUâ€ are favourite topic of yours Iâ€™m sure. Comment by Mighty Hermaphrodite&quot;

That argument is retarded even by your standards.  And here I thought you were as dumb as a bag of hammers, looks like we&#039;ll have to find something closer to your skills.  How about as dumb as a bag of rocks?  That one works better.

So using your brilliant logic, may we assume that you would also hire a mafia leg breaker to watch your children - simply because he&#039;s &#039;tough&#039;?  

And I hate to correct you - it seems like the only thing possible around your copious explusion of lies and crap, but when we sold weapons to Iraq, Iran wasn&#039;t holding any hostages.  But ironically Iran was holding a whole bunch of weapons and parts that Reagan gave them in exchange for those hostages.  So much for the Reichwing lies about not negotiating with hostage takers.

Republicans are such fools.  They give weapons to terrorists, dictators and fools and then are surprised when all hell breaks loose.  You guys aren&#039;t the sharpest tools in the drawer, but you prove that you&#039;re definitely all &#039;tools&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You mean the weapons we sold to help Iraq battle Iran?? The country holding 52 hostages?? For 444 days?? Those weapons???? The US that I hate??? Put your crack pipe down and analyze yourself ad nauseum &#8211; â€œYOUâ€ are favourite topic of yours Iâ€™m sure. Comment by Mighty Hermaphrodite&#8221;</p>
<p>That argument is retarded even by your standards.  And here I thought you were as dumb as a bag of hammers, looks like we&#8217;ll have to find something closer to your skills.  How about as dumb as a bag of rocks?  That one works better.</p>
<p>So using your brilliant logic, may we assume that you would also hire a mafia leg breaker to watch your children &#8211; simply because he&#8217;s &#8216;tough&#8217;?  </p>
<p>And I hate to correct you &#8211; it seems like the only thing possible around your copious explusion of lies and crap, but when we sold weapons to Iraq, Iran wasn&#8217;t holding any hostages.  But ironically Iran was holding a whole bunch of weapons and parts that Reagan gave them in exchange for those hostages.  So much for the Reichwing lies about not negotiating with hostage takers.</p>
<p>Republicans are such fools.  They give weapons to terrorists, dictators and fools and then are surprised when all hell breaks loose.  You guys aren&#8217;t the sharpest tools in the drawer, but you prove that you&#8217;re definitely all &#8216;tools&#8217;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470731', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Granite State Destroyer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Granite State Destroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Life on the DemDole can be soâ€¦.blissfully ignorant. WOW!! &lt;/strong&gt;

As opposed to the NO-bid Republican contract dole. How about the federal DOLE that Bush is giving to churches with his faith based initiative? Sure, let&#039;s give MY money to churches..Catholic churches can use it ply altar boys for diddling. Muslim mosques can use the money to fund Al-Qaeda and perhaps we can get some money donated to the church of Satan and the Moony Church so that they can use the money to prop-up the Washington Times?

It is one big giveaway to the churches with Bushco...Let&#039;s also sell of federal land to corporations for pennies on the dollar....and give tax incentives and federal moeny to Exxon/Mobil, Shell and Texaco too.

-GSD

While you are at it, let the government spy on the citizens too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Life on the DemDole can be soâ€¦.blissfully ignorant. WOW!! </strong></p>
<p>As opposed to the NO-bid Republican contract dole. How about the federal DOLE that Bush is giving to churches with his faith based initiative? Sure, let&#8217;s give MY money to churches..Catholic churches can use it ply altar boys for diddling. Muslim mosques can use the money to fund Al-Qaeda and perhaps we can get some money donated to the church of Satan and the Moony Church so that they can use the money to prop-up the Washington Times?</p>
<p>It is one big giveaway to the churches with Bushco&#8230;Let&#8217;s also sell of federal land to corporations for pennies on the dollar&#8230;.and give tax incentives and federal moeny to Exxon/Mobil, Shell and Texaco too.</p>
<p>-GSD</p>
<p>While you are at it, let the government spy on the citizens too.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470725', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Granite State Destroyer</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470723</link>
		<dc:creator>Granite State Destroyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pl&lt;strong&gt;ease tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible - preferably 90%&lt;/strong&gt; 

Irrationalism at its finest.

Why not have NO taxes and let the American people defend themselves, build their own roads and throw garbage into the gutters, and let the poor, infirm and elderly freeze or be eaten by jackals?

Same logic pumpkin.

-GSD</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pl<strong>ease tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible &#8211; preferably 90%</strong> </p>
<p>Irrationalism at its finest.</p>
<p>Why not have NO taxes and let the American people defend themselves, build their own roads and throw garbage into the gutters, and let the poor, infirm and elderly freeze or be eaten by jackals?</p>
<p>Same logic pumpkin.</p>
<p>-GSD<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470723', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RunningDogLackey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470718</link>
		<dc:creator>RunningDogLackey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;America&#039;s Foreign Policy. Making It Up As We Go Along for More Than a CenturyTM&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;America&#8217;s Foreign Policy. Making It Up As We Go Along for More Than a CenturyTM&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470718', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RunningDogLackey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470715</link>
		<dc:creator>RunningDogLackey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#31 THANK YOU!

Iraq wouldn&#039;t have needed WMDs if we hadn&#039;t been arming their enemy at the same time!

Ipso facto, QED. IRAQ WAS EVIL.

Plus, REAGAN FREED THE HOSTAGES!!!!! (Although he had to ask the Iranians to delay the release somewhat, until his inauguration.)

To recap: IRAQ ONLY HAD OUR WMDs BECAUSE IRAQ WAS MARGINALLY LESS EVIL THAN THE COUNTRY WE WERE USING TO ILLEGALLY FUND OUR DEATH SQUADS IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Christ, ANY patriot can see that we were right to invade Iraq a second time, even though we let Saddam slaughter his enemies after the first war. Oh, and Allende had it coming.

So there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#31 THANK YOU!</p>
<p>Iraq wouldn&#8217;t have needed WMDs if we hadn&#8217;t been arming their enemy at the same time!</p>
<p>Ipso facto, QED. IRAQ WAS EVIL.</p>
<p>Plus, REAGAN FREED THE HOSTAGES!!!!! (Although he had to ask the Iranians to delay the release somewhat, until his inauguration.)</p>
<p>To recap: IRAQ ONLY HAD OUR WMDs BECAUSE IRAQ WAS MARGINALLY LESS EVIL THAN THE COUNTRY WE WERE USING TO ILLEGALLY FUND OUR DEATH SQUADS IN SOUTH AMERICA.</p>
<p>Christ, ANY patriot can see that we were right to invade Iraq a second time, even though we let Saddam slaughter his enemies after the first war. Oh, and Allende had it coming.</p>
<p>So there.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470715', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
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		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#26 - SpongeMAN - You mean the weapons we sold to help Iraq battle Iran?? The country holding 52 hostages?? For 444 days?? Those weapons????  The US that I hate??? Put your crack pipe down and analyze yourself ad nauseum - &quot;YOU&quot; are favourite topic of yours I&#039;m sure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#26 &#8211; SpongeMAN &#8211; You mean the weapons we sold to help Iraq battle Iran?? The country holding 52 hostages?? For 444 days?? Those weapons????  The US that I hate??? Put your crack pipe down and analyze yourself ad nauseum &#8211; &#8220;YOU&#8221; are favourite topic of yours I&#8217;m sure.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470712', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Optimist</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470710</link>
		<dc:creator>Optimist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#24-Mighty Hermaphrodite,
I am disappointed in that I thought that you had some new information to produce but instead you are going to revisit the argument that has already been totally discredited.  Let me save you some time:
-  Saddam bad guy? Yes.
-  Saddam buy weapons from US? Yes.
-  Saddam get weapons taken away.  Yes.
-  Iraqi&#039;s get killed for no reason. Yes.
-  Bush, Cheney, Condi, Powell, Rumsfeld all lie? Yes.
-  Why Mighty Hermaphrodite support criminals?  Unknown.

And thank you again for the compliment, but now I think you are just flirting with me.  Although I am flattered, I have to decline because I do not associate myself with folks who surrender their morals, ethics, and rights just so they can get a pat on their head from unca george.  Sorry, but my soul is not for sale.  But I will help you buy yours back if you are truly interested.  It&#039;s not too late, yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#24-Mighty Hermaphrodite,<br />
I am disappointed in that I thought that you had some new information to produce but instead you are going to revisit the argument that has already been totally discredited.  Let me save you some time:<br />
-  Saddam bad guy? Yes.<br />
-  Saddam buy weapons from US? Yes.<br />
-  Saddam get weapons taken away.  Yes.<br />
-  Iraqi&#8217;s get killed for no reason. Yes.<br />
-  Bush, Cheney, Condi, Powell, Rumsfeld all lie? Yes.<br />
-  Why Mighty Hermaphrodite support criminals?  Unknown.</p>
<p>And thank you again for the compliment, but now I think you are just flirting with me.  Although I am flattered, I have to decline because I do not associate myself with folks who surrender their morals, ethics, and rights just so they can get a pat on their head from unca george.  Sorry, but my soul is not for sale.  But I will help you buy yours back if you are truly interested.  It&#8217;s not too late, yet.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470710', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470703</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#22 - GSD  -  To show you how FAR left I&#039;ve REALLY come, I admit that the government knows what EVERYONE needs, EVERYWHERE at ALL times.  Please tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible - preferably 90% so we don&#039;t have to think about anything important.  (We can all be equally miserable together!!)  Life on the DemDole can be so....blissfully ignorant.  WOW!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#22 &#8211; GSD  &#8211;  To show you how FAR left I&#8217;ve REALLY come, I admit that the government knows what EVERYONE needs, EVERYWHERE at ALL times.  Please tax everyone, everywhere, at the highest rates possible &#8211; preferably 90% so we don&#8217;t have to think about anything important.  (We can all be equally miserable together!!)  Life on the DemDole can be so&#8230;.blissfully ignorant.  WOW!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470703', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Clif</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/09/iraq-forces-rumsfeld/comment-page-1/#comment-470701</link>
		<dc:creator>Clif</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mighty Aphro are those the weapons that the United Nations inspectors found and destroyed in the mid 90&#039;s with Scott Ritter helping. 

www.fas.org/news/iraq/1992 

The same ones that the Reagan administration was helping Saddam aquire during their war with Iran(who Reagan sold weapons too), the ones that Donald Rumsfeld went to Iraq and shook saddams hand to seal the deal, might those be the ones you speak of given the link is fron 1992, when George Bush 41 was president.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mighty Aphro are those the weapons that the United Nations inspectors found and destroyed in the mid 90&#8217;s with Scott Ritter helping. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1992" rel="nofollow">http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1992</a> </p>
<p>The same ones that the Reagan administration was helping Saddam aquire during their war with Iran(who Reagan sold weapons too), the ones that Donald Rumsfeld went to Iraq and shook saddams hand to seal the deal, might those be the ones you speak of given the link is fron 1992, when George Bush 41 was president.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=470701', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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